The AMA is in celebration of the debut pf Poker Central, the world's only 24/7 Poker TV channel, on Oct. 1. Leading up to the launch, Poker Central organized several premier poker events this summer, most notably the $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller …
One of her gambling operations was an underground high-stakes poker game. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the poker games began after Guo befriended an unidentified foreign professional poker player during one of her trips to Macau, the …
The other main criteria for the Poker Hall of Fame are that the player must have “played poker against acknowledged top competition” and “for high stakes,” while playing “consistently well” and “gaining the respect of peers.” The player must have …
Like most things in poker, there's no set rule about when and how to move up to the next stake. Different players have different skill levels and risk tolerances, so each individual will handle moving up differently. There are some guidelines that …
The Norwegian Poker Championships, after years in the wilderness, will make a return to home soil at last. Draconian gambling laws that have in recent years exiled the championships to far flung cities in the UK, Ireland, Latvia and Sweden have finally …
The date of the hearing may not be known, but what is becoming crystal clear is the mood at and following the hearing will let us know if online poker has any chance of passing in 2015. Most observers are of the opinion it will now take a miracle for …
The RunGood Poker Series continues its "Road to the RunGood Cup" this week with the RunGood Hard Rock Tulsa, which kicks off this Wednesday, September 16th with a $180 RG Deep Stack event featuring two starting flights and a $20,000 Guarantee.
Daniel Negreanu, the most marketed and marketable player in poker, is within spitting distance of making the final table of the 2015 WSOP Main Event. With 27 players left, he's sitting in ninth place with just one day of play left before everything …
Yue Feng Pan captured headlines when he topped a record summer series field of 945 players to win the Macau Poker Cup 23 (MPC23) Main Event for HK$2,108,000 (approx. $272,000), but just a couple days later another man captured a nearly equal prize …
If you've spent more than, oh, about five minutes hanging around the poker world, I think you'll see the face of just about every poker player reflected in the mirror of that general truth. Surely, then, the necessary first step in fixing poker …
Poker players in Europe are getting ready for one of the hottest festivals of the season, as the Russian Poker Tour (RPT) plans to throw the biggest poker event in Eastern Europe in 2015, taking place in Minsk, Belarus, from Sept. 17-27. To be held at …
For most players, busting a poker tournament is an emotional experience. It's the point where players — no matter how well they played — must accept the fact that their tournament life is over. Sometimes it doesn't hurt much (maybe you were short for …
Pia Jeppesen became only the second female to win a Genting Poker Series (GPS) Main Event title after she outlasted 283 opponents in Stoke to get her hands on the winner's trophy and £30,660 in prize money.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An 18-year-old Delta Junction charged with beating his step-father with a fireplace poker is facing additional assault charges for hitting his cellmate with a food tray. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://bit.ly …
With the sale of Poker Asia Pacific effective from September 1st 2015, Plus EV Pty Ltd and the new Poker Asia Pacific team, headed up by Luke Brabin, have hit the ground running with our first upgrade. Members of the team include well-known Australian …
Pia Jeppesen has the chance to become only the second female player to win a Genting Poker Series (GPS) Main Event, following in the footsteps of Ellie Biessek who won the Newcastle Main Event in 2013, as she leads the final 21 players in the 2015 …
Event #1 of the 2015 Borgata Poker Open, which boasted a $2 million guarantee, attracted 3,922 entrants, and on Friday night it was Federico Ottenio who conquered a tough final table to win the $325,127 first-place prize. Prior to the win, Ottenio had …
Today marks the official end for the possibility of online poker legislation passing in California this year. The 2015 California legislative session comes to a close on Sept. 11. Of course, it was obvious the door had shut when an online poker hearing …